"I had spent a lot of my time living a bachelor life. It was a lot of fun but I never seemed to meet the right woman. In my thirties, I dated a woman for four years but she didn't want a family. When we split up, it struck me that I was already 36 and that I couldn't spend my whole life partying.
"I do think that men have some form of biological clock. It's not the same as a woman's, obviously, but it really did feel that I'd reached that time of life when it was right to have a kid.
"But it took a traumatic experience to bring this home."
yep.